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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Past what church does Jess note going on her way from the train station to Ben's building?

2. As which of the following does the novel gloss "putain"?

3. To which of the following does Sophie compare Jess?

4. What brand of camera does Nick have?

5. Which of the following makes of car does Jess remember Ben driving?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Ben note for feeling that “Jess could hardly have chosen a worse time to decide to come and stay” with him (1)?

2. How do Jacque and Sophie describe Ben to one another after Sophie's first meeting with Ben?

3. During their first meeting, Jess and Mendelson both order a particular drink. What is it and what is notable about it?

4. Why does Jess note smelling of vinegar when she arrives in Paris?

5. What reason does Antoine’s wife voice for not disclosing information to Jess?

6. How does the novel explain the phrase "soleil de plomb"?

7. What books does Nick have on his shelves?

8. Nick notes that "Normally [during exercise], I'd sit here and do a class, or listen to a Ted Talk" (40)? Why does he not do so?

9. What relationship do Jess and Ben have?

10. What does Jess note might be a good motto for herself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of The Paris Apartment on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that The Paris Apartment should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The crime on which the Meunier family fortune is based is of a particular sort. How would the novel differ were the crime of a different sort altogether? Why would it differ in that way?

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